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The videos and writings of Els Dietvorst explore themes such as social conflict and survival in the margins. Art-Coeur-Merci is a film installation about a young Cameroonian man trying to survive in Brussels, with the addition of a performance by Angélique Wilkie. They make us reflect on the essential things in life.

Burning Ice - For Burning Ice #7, Agency is selecting a number of ‘things’ and speculates on how the idea of ‘commons’ can be included in art and science practices, with a special focus on folklore and traditional knowledge.

Burning Ice - Flatbread Society is a public art project that brings together farmers, oven builders, astronomers, artists, soil scientists, bakers, anthropologists and others who share an interest in humankind’s long and complex relationship with grain.

A new double episode in a series of by now legendary dance and music duets by dancer and choreographer Jonathan Burrows and musician and composer Matteo Fargion: a glimpse into the creation of their work as well as a rant about structure, accompanied by live piano pieces and disintegrating cartoons.

WoWmen! - In Lifting Mountains with My Belly, or The Pregnancy Project, three heavily pregnant women talk about their experience of pregnancy. Three different views on what it’s like to have something in your belly, and what it’s like to be inside the belly of something bigger.

WoWmen! - The Catalan dancer and choreographer Pere Faura is fascinated by the mechanisms of sexual arousal; the connection between dance and eroticism is the basis of the twofold programme that he will be presenting during WoWmen. In Striptease, he compares the art of stripping with theatre.

WoWmen! - The Catalan dancer and choreographer Pere Faura is fascinated by the mechanisms of sexual arousal. A hula hoop and Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons play a central role in Bomberos con grandes mangueras (Firemen with long hoses). Pornographic imagery becomes part of the choreographic practice.

WoWmen! - Now that more and more practising Muslims are coming to power in Turkey, the feminist movement finds itself on the horns of a dilemma. Is the tension between tradition and modernisation in East and West Istanbul illustrative of what is happening in gender issues? This is the topic of a debate.

What happens when people come together, how do we relate to and in a group? This is the fundamental question in two productions by the choreographer and performer Ivana Müller. You can watch them both on the same evening. In the production In common you are the observer and in We are still watching you are the participant. A written script guides you through unexpected scenes and situations.

The Extra Sensorial Garden is an invitation to enter a fictional garden. All the visitor’s senses are stimulated, and together with his own imagination this produces a strong physical experience. There is not always much to see, but all the more to feel. Changes in light, colour, temperature and sound create a sensitive fabric in this artificial nature experiment. How do you experience nature, does it overwhelm you, does it make you feel at peace. Or do you think that nature no longer exists?

The Austrian artist Franz West (1947-2012) asked Ivo Dimchev to make two videos for two of his ‘Adaptives’ (portable sculptures). Dimchev then asked West if he could create a live performance using these sculptures. Dimchev not only uses them, but also becomes a sculpture himself.

Kate McIntosh’s work is a delicious mixture of all sorts of genres. In All Ears she tells us about the behaviour of people and animals, jokes about politics and group dynamics, performs dances about bees and traffic jams... and asks pertinent questions. A witty and lucid performance that balances between experiment and entertainment.

Nadia Tsulukidze is fascinated by Stalin as a dictator and as the director of the USSR Gesamtkunstwerk. She mixes live camera and images by Mikheil Chiaureli from The Great Farewell, among other things, with the story of her family during the Soviet era and present-day Georgia. Stef van Alsenoy creates soundscapes. Dirk Verstockt is co-writer and director.

If your time seems scarce, if you're unsure how to juggle your own availability, if you dream of slow days or maybe faster ones, 'Imagine Work' proposes an opportunity to reflect, discuss and imagine what other kinds of working time might be possible. Prepare to meet, to think, to listen and argue together with the guests invited by SPIN.